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> ... and has a strong commitment to diversity.

Experience has shown that comedy and "diversity efforts" are negatively correlated

Yeah, it's all been downhill since they shut down the Chitlin' Circuit and people like Richard Pryor started showing up in mainstream venues.

Quora has a Chitlin' Circuit group. Lots of good stuff there.

Your experiences are quite limited then.

On the contrary this has been shown time and time and time again and again and again. All the great comedians (Louis CK, Seinfeld, Carlin, Prior,Chris Rock, Bill Burr) are transgressors,provocative, very un-PC and at odds with the SJW movement.

You can keep you "jazz-hands" comedians all to yourself and your "rich" experience.

I would encourage you to look deeper than just following the mainstream narrative you currently are. The world is much more complex that you are giving it credit in this statement.

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